Act 2: The Exciting Middle Part
Chapter 36: Chaotic Arrival
Edit Finished On 3/31/19
Published On 4/5/19
Author Note: Welcome to the chapter! I have a small announcement to make: as of yesterday, I have completely finished writing Act 2. The weekly updates will still be happening up until the end of the Act, but I'm taking a small break before I start writing Act 3 to write one or two (or maybe even three) oneshots based in this canon I have created. That's it, and enjoy!
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The Crocker Rocket soared through space, seemingly to no destination. After a while, it passed right by the Death Ball. The Death Ball is a giant spaceship, it's purpose being Dark Laser's lair and mobile command base.
Dark Laser was created by Timmy several months ago. Timmy had wished for a copy machine that could turn anything he scanned to life. Timmy scanned a character from one of his comic books, Dark Laser, turning him to life. But in the comic book, Dark Laser was a villain, so problems quickly arose afterward.
Inside the Death Ball, two of Dark Laser's lackeys were sitting at a computer, laughing at what was on the screen. Dark Laser, noticing the small commotion, walked over to them.
"What's so funny?" Dark Laser questioned. The two lackeys immediately stopped laughing and went silent.
"Um…" One of the lackeys started to say, unsure how to put it. "You… probably wouldn't find it funny, sir."
"What do you mean, I'm Dark Laser!" Dark Laser said. "I have a great sense of humor." He turned to look at the computer screen, but when he did, he was so flabbergasted that he rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things. "Leaping light-years!" Dark Laser took another look at the screen.
The screen depicted a YouTube video showing an animated, chibi Dark Laser doing strange dances while singing, "I'm Fart Laser, I'm Fart Laser, pull my finger, I'm Fart Laser!" Wh
Enraged, Dark Laser pushed his lackeys out of the way to get a better look at the computer screen. "Who posted these lies?" Scanning the screen, he saw that the video had a perfect 5 Star rating, and despite it only being uploaded around 20 minutes ago, it was nearly at a million views. And then, he saw who created the video.
"Turner…"
Timmy, Crocker, Mark all stood on the front lawn of Crocker's house. Timmy held a laptop and was smiling to himself. "Three, two, one." Timmy closed the laptop.
Momentarily, the three of them looked up, and saw the Death Ball quickly coming down for a landing on the lawn. It landed, the door opening a few seconds later, followed by a ramp to walk down. But Dark Laser ignored the ramp, jumping down straight to right in front of Timmy, and he pulled out a red, glowing light stick.
"Timmy Turner, this time you've gone too far." Dark Laser threatened. "I told you about my irritable fall in confidence!"
On the other side of the sidewalk, three teens were riding their bicycles, but stopped when they saw Dark Laser. "It's Fart Laser! From YouTube!" The three of them began laughing, but Dark Laser turned around, his hand glowing green, allowing him to pick up the teens from far away. He then flung the now frightened teens into a nearby tree.
"Uh, can we talk about this another time?" Timmy asked. "There are way more important matters we need to deal with right now."
Before anyone could say anything else, they all heard loud screaming followed by loud footsteps. Crocker and Mark turned around, only to scream as a large, pink lion and his rider trample both of them. Lion then skidded to a stop right next to Timmy, inadvertedly flinging his rider, Peridot, off, causing her to tumble.
Peridot then stood up, grumbling while getting grass off of herself. "Lion, I told you not to do that, since you'll-" She looked up, and saw the Death Ball. "Oh my stars…" Stars were in her eyes. "It's a ship! A ship that I can use to get off this gem forsaken planet!"
"Uh, that's my ship you're talking about, lady." Dark Laser said, his attention now focused on Peridot. "And just what kind of lady is green, anyway?"
"Well excuse me, pebble!" Peridot retaliated. "I just happen to have a very important reason to get off this hunk of rock, and your ship I now claim as mine, since I most likely outrank you in every way possible. I mean, you don't even look like a Gem! At least, not one that I've seen."
"Why, you…" Dark Laser said. He aimed his light stick at Peridot. "Turner making that video of me was bad enough, but you-"
"Uh, green lady!" Timmy yelled, getting Peridot's attention. "Can you tell your pink lion to stop sniffing me!" Timmy tried to run from Lion, but the pink animal soon bounded upon Timmy and knocked the 11-year-old to his stomach, making him frustrated.
Peridot saw this and ran over to Lion. "Lion, don't attack strangers!" Lion then stepped off of Timmy, allowing Timmy to get up. He glared at Peridot and Lion.
"Do you mind training your lion a little better as to not tackle everyone he sees?" Timmy questioned, very annoyed.
"I don't have any time to train him!" Peridot argued. "There's no time to wait around and train because it is very important that I get off of this planet as soon as possible!"
"Yeah, well I have to get off of this planet too but you don't see me walking around using wild animals to attack people!" Timmy yelled.
"Well what do you want me to do about it?"
"Maybe tell him to stop! And why is he even pink anyway?"
"I don't know!"
Crocker and Mark had only gotten up a few moments ago, and were walking over to Peridot. "You know, green lady," Crocker began. "You really need to watch where your pets are running, cause I think he just took about a year off my lifespan."
"And, uh, are you like, another alien?" Mark added.
Peridot cleared her throat. "One: Stop calling me green lady! It's Peridot! Two: I just said I can't control him most of the time, and three…" She paused, getting another look at Mark. "…Oh. You're a Yugopatamian."
"And?" Mark asked, wanting Peridot to continue.
"Well, I did have logs of Yellow Diamond attempting to colonize your planet, but soon had her fleets retreat due to how… gross your planet is." Peridot cringed as she said the last part. "And I also saw another log about a planet inhabited by "Gigglepies" that colonization was quickly shut down on, though it didn't say why."
"Aw man, my planet didn't get colonized!" Mark responded, sad. "Oh, I mean, yes, my planet didn't get colonized!"
"Anyway…" Dark Laser said, about to change the topic again. "Why did you even come here?"
Peridot sighed in exasperation. "I already told you, I-"
"TWERP!"
"Oh no." Timmy said, recognizing that voice.
Vicky, who still had a cold, was walking down the street to try to reinvigorate herself. However, when she had seen Timmy, she stopped and had yelled what everyone just heard.
Vicky quickly began stomping over to Timmy. "Out of my way!" She shoved Crocker and Mark to the side, so she could get a clear path to Timmy. Once she was a foot away, she stopped.
"Uh, Vicky, I think this might be a bad ti-" Timmy tried to say, until Vicky interrupted him by grabbing his shirt and pulling him up to eye level.
"Thanks to this cough, I-" Vicky suddenly paused when she had to cough. She let go of Timmy and he fell to the ground, letting Vick cover her mouth with her arm. "Thanks to this cou-" She coughed again. "Thanks to-" Another cough.
"Oh, Vicky!" Mark said, quickly slithering over to her, worried. "What ailment befalls you so that I can find the cure that you-" Vicky wasn't having any of it and threw Mark over her shoulder, sending him flying halfway through the wall of Crocker's house.
"Oh, is the mailman here already?" Crocker's mother, Dolores asked from inside the house.
Vicky coughed several more times before she was able to stop. "Thanks to this stupid cough, I couldn't babysit you last Sunday, and then your parents decided to fire me yesterday, and now you're over here living it up with a giant ship, your crazy teacher, that foreign exchange student, some guy dressed up as a comic book character, and that green lady with a pink lion!"
Peridot frowned. "That. Is. Not. My NAME!" She screamed, and a moment later charged at Vicky. The redhead quickly countered by kicking the green Gem back several feet.
Peridot soon stood back up. "Um, next time, could you please not kick me where my coat is?"
"Hm, lemme think about it." Vicky paused, pretending to be in deep thought. "Um, no."
A few seconds later, Lion began to growl at Vicky, who responded by laughing nervously. "Uh, nice kitty?" Vicky screamed as she soon ran away from Lion, who had started to chase after her, teeth bared.
"Awesome!" Timmy said. He looked around. Mark had just freed his head from the wall, Lion was chasing Vicky while Peridot was laughing, and Crocker was conversing with Dark Laser.
After several seconds, Peridot stopped laughing. "Alright, I've waited long enough. I'm just going to get on the ship now." She quickly began to walk over to the ramp that lead to the ship, but Dark Laser quickly spotted her and stood in front of her, blocking her way.
"And just where do you think you're going?" Dark Laser questioned.
"Going on the ship?" Peridot answered. "I mean, where else would I be going?" Dark Laser then glared at her, and Peridot glared back. Several seconds passed.
Unexpectedly, Peridot went to her knees. "Oh please please please PLEASE let me on the ship! See there's this geoweapon that's embedded in the Earth's core and it can take it's form at any moment so that's why I need to get off this planet as soon as possible please please please!" She pleaded without any breaks in her sentence.
"What?" Dark Laser asked, not understanding anything that Peridot just said.
Timmy walked up to Peridot and sighed. "Look, you have to get off this planet because of some Cluster thing, and I have to get off this planet because I have to find a wand on a blue moon in order to stop an ancient, swirling, giant cloud of dark gas!"
"And?" Peridot raised an eyebrow.
"And, why don't we just agree to work together so that we can all agree to accomplish everything we need to faster?" Timmy asked with a nervous smile.
"Hm…" Peridot thought for a moment. "Can you take me back to Homeworld?"
"Yes, yes, I can take you to Homeworld." Timmy turned around. "Let's hope there are no more surprises. Crocker, Mark, let's-"
He stopped, as did everyone else. Around a dozen feet above them all, a huge, rainbow portal appeared. A couple seconds later, a man in strange clothes, Mr. L, landed on the ground. A few more seconds passed, and then Bowser appeared, falling in a heap on the ground. The portal then closed.
"Who the heck are they?" Vicky questioned.
"That's what I was about to ask!" Mark said. "Vicky, you truly must be in-" Vicky kicked Mark away.
"Okay, let me guess." Timmy said, walking up to Bowser and Mr. L. "Let's see…" He looked at Bowser. "Bigger version of Junior, so you must be his dad, and…" He turned to Mr. L, and… he had absolutely no clue. He could've sworn he did, but it was just something preventing him from figuring it out… almost like a wall, or an aura… "I have absolutely no idea."
"Buck Teeth has 'absolutely no idea'. How expected." Mr. L said, laughing only a moment later.
"Buck teeth?" Timmy questioned, unsure if it was an insult.
Bowser then stood up and looked around. "Mr. L! Just where the heck did this portal take us?"
"This is Dimmsdale." Crocker answered before Mr. L could. "Weird. You don't see a portal come out from the sky every day around here."
"Like Fairy Freak said, we're in Dimmsdale." Mr. L explained. "If you had any brains, Koopa, you'd see exactly why we're here!"
Bowser sputtered for several seconds, unable to think of a response. "W-Well… maybe I didn't expect Dimmsdale to be where that portal took us, Mr. L!"
"And it was either this or stay trapped in Flipside."
"Excuse me!" Vicky yelled, angered as she stomped up to Bowser and Mr. L. "I asked before, and now I'm asking again: Who the heck are you two?"
"Do you seriously not know who I am?" Bowser questioned, turning to face Vicky.
"Uh, no." Vicky answered.
"Well, I'm Bowser, King of the Koopas!"
"Wow, a king! I'm impressed!" Vicky said, and then shook Bowser's hand for a few seconds. "Alright, now just who are you?" Vicky asked, turning to Mr. L.
"That's today's most popular question, isn't it? 'Who are you?'" Mr. L laughed, tauntingly. "Sure, I'll tell you. I'm… a minion of Count Bleck!"
"Wait, Count Bleck?" Timmy cut in. "Mario told me that Count Bleck was trying to destroy the universe, and you're working with him? Then that can only mean… Bowser, you're working for Count Bleck?" Timmy raised an eyebrow.
"What?! No!" Bowser yelled, shocked at Timmy's accusation.
"Just wait a second." Peridot interrupted. "Mr… L… do you give everyone you meet some strange nickname?"
"Sure do, Greenie!" Mr. L answered.
Peridot groaned. "At least you didn't call me "green lady"."
"Ooh, ooh, what's my nickname, Mr. L?" Mark excitedly asked.
"Mark!" Timmy chastised.
"Sorry."
"Hey, can we hurry this up a little?" Crocker asked, pointing to his watch. "I have to take mother to her doctor appointment at around 6."
"And I don't even know why I'm here!" Dark Laser added.
"Yeah yeah, we'll talk about it on the way to the Vegan System." Timmy said as he started to push Dark Laser up the ship ramp.
"We are not done with this conversation!" Dark Laser argued. After Timmy pushed Dark Laser inside the ship, he looked behind him and saw Peridot excitedly run onto the ship, Crocker and Mark behind her.
"Lion, let's go!" Peridot yelled. Lion was still on the lawn, and had decided to sniff Bowser and Mr. L. Lion didn't react when sniffing Bowser, but when he sniffed Mr. L, his eyes widened, and ran away and onto the ship, hiding behind Peridot.
"Well?" Mr. L turned to Bowser. "Shouldn't the two of us be going as well?"
"Way ahead of you." Bowser said. He turned around and started to leave, until Mr. L grabbed his hand and started to drag him toward the ship.
"Wrong way."
Bowser then groaned, knowing that he was still largely too weak to resist Mr. L's very tight grip on his hand. Mr. L dragged Bowser onto and inside the ship.
"Alright, now we just need the final ingredient." Timmy smirked. He looked at Vicky, who was the last one still on the lawn.
"Oh no." Vicky realized. "Twerp, there is no way in a million years that I am ever going inside that spaceship!" She narrowed her eyes.
Luckily, Timmy came prepared, and held up a cash machine that was overflowing with money. He pressed a button on the cash machine, and even more money began spilling out. At this, Vicky became hypnotized by all of the money, and began sprinting toward it. Timmy then threw the cash machine inside of the Death Ball, where Vicky lunged at it. By now, everyone except Timmy and Crocker were inside the ship.
"Now hang on a second, I think I might've dropped something when that pink lion charged at me." Crocker said, checking his pockets.
"Ok, it's most likely not important so let's go ahead and move along!" Timmy quickly responded, pushing Crocker inside the ship. The ramp then retracted, followed by the door closing. A few seconds later, the Death Ball took off, soaring off of planet Earth and into space.
The Death Ball now had several passengers. Three of which knew the actual plan, three more who didn't know why they were even there, one who was already getting impatient, another one who was just simply sitting and waiting, and one last person who had figured out Timmy's trick.
"What's going on?" Vicky questioned, holding up the cash register. "There's fake money in this," She threw it aside. "And why did you drag us all here on an evil space pod?"
"Alright, listen." Timmy announced before anyone could go on a tangent. "Alien robots have kidnapped my friends and family, which means-"
"Alien robots?" Peridot interrupted.
Timmy sighed. "Yes, and they stole all of Mark's Fake-I-Fiers which allows them to change their appearance which means-"
"Oh, it all makes sense now!" Peridot interrupted. "Those Crystal Clods I had agreed to work with actually had been captured at some point by those robots, and then they used those fake-whatevers to disguise themselves as those clods!" She paused. "Wow, that was… a really well-thought out plan."
"Hey, something like that happened to me too!" Bowser added. "Flipside's like a ghost town now!"
"And the Eliminators tried to get me too, but Mark and I beat them!" Timmy added. "And if we all work together, I bet we can beat back the Darkness and Eliminators, get the second wand on the Blue Moon of Vegan, and save our friends and family!" Timmy and Mark smiled, hoping the rest of them would help.
"I don't know, Turner." Crocker said. "I'm not exactly willing to risk my life, despite how little years I may have left on it."
"And there are more important things to be worrying about right now!" Bowser added. "Like how the Void will destroy everything if we waste our time doing something else!"
"And Peridot was crying about some geoweapon that will break apart the Earth or something like that." Dark Laser also added.
"I wasn't crying!" Peridot argued. "I was just telling you in a way that looked like crying!"
"Alright!" Timmy yelled, getting everyone's attention. "Look, we can stop the Darkness, Void, and geoweapon if we just all work together!"
"Well, what's in it for us?" Vicky asked.
"Okay, Vicky, I'll give you twenty bucks," Timmy said, starting to go through everyone on the ship. "Peridot, I'll take you back to Homeworld, Crocker, you can see my fairies, Bowser, I'll help you stop the Void, Dark Laser, you can destroy me when this is all over, and…" He paused when he got to Mr. L. He had absolutely no idea what Mr. L would want.
"It doesn't matter to me." Mr. L said vaguely. "Just… whatever. I'll think of it later."
"Alrighty then." Timmy responded.
There was a pause. A long, awkward pause.
"Deal!" Everyone Timmy had promised things to said, now willing to help him.
"I'll set the coordinates for the Vegan System!" Dark Laser rushed over to a control panel and quickly began typing in coordinates. Once he was finished, he slammed his fist on a red button, setting the Death Ball on a course for the Blue Moon.
"Alright, Timmy doll, today's the day!"
Tootie sat in her room, which was covered with stickers, posters, drawings, and pretty much anything related to Timmy, including, strangely enough, a lock of his hair. Tootie was sitting on her bed, acting out a fake marriage between dolls of herself and Timmy.
"Yep, we're gonna get married!" Tootie, acting out the Timmy doll said. She grabbed the Tootie and Timmy dolls, got off her bed, and ran over to her dresser, where there was a miniature wedding setup. She placed the Tootie and Timmy dolls on opposite sides of the alter.
"And now, Timmy and Tootie will say their wedding vows!" Tootie said. "But wait, what's this?" She reached down to the floor, and grabbed another doll. A Vicky doll.
"Oh no, it's Vicky!" Tootie acted out the Timmy doll. "That's right!" Tootie then acted out the Vicky doll. "And I'm gonna destroy this wedding!" Tootie slammed the Vicky doll onto the dresser, scattering several of the miniature chairs.
"She's destroying our wedding!" Tootie yelled, acting out the doll of herself. She raised the Vicky doll in the air, and then slammed it down as hard as she could on the Timmy doll. "There!" Tootie acted out the Vicky doll. "Now Timmy's gone forever!"
A loud alarm suddenly went off. "Oh, right!" Tootie tossed the Vicky doll aside. "It's time for Vicky to take her cold medicine!" She ran out of her room and went downstairs. Her mom and dad had gone out shopping around 30 minutes ago, so they were gone.
"Oh Vicky!" Tootie called out. No response. "Oh right, Vicky's on her walk!" She walked into the kitchen to get a snack, only for her to see Vicky's cold pill bottle sitting on the table. "She forgot her pills! And it's time to take those pills! VICKY! WAIT!"
Tootie ran out of the house as fast as she could after grabbing the pill bottle and down the sidewalk, looking for Vicky. After several minutes, she finally found Vicky, but it was already far too late.
It was too late because she had only arrived right when Vicky was getting into the Death Ball, only about a second before it closed.
"Wait!" Tootie said, running over to the Death Ball. But by the time she got anywhere near the Death Ball, it had already taken off into space. "NO!"
Tootie went to her knees. "What am I gonna do now? Now both Timmy and Vicky are gone!" She started crying for several seconds, until she saw something several feet away. She stood up, walked over to it, and picked it up.
It was a rectangular object, by the name of "DNA Tracker XP 2000" and on the back of it was written "Fairy Godparents Exist!" There was also a small screen on the front, and a slot at the top.
"A DNA Tracker! I can use this to find where Timmy is!" She reached into her pocket and pulled out one of her "emergency Timmy hairs" and inserted it into the DNA Tracker. A moment later, it gave Tootie all of the information on Timmy, including where he was…
"Look, Timpani. The stars are beautiful, aren't they?"
"…There's a tradition in my village. We believe that wishes on stars come true."
"Oh, is that so? In that case we'd better get wishing, don't you think?"
"I don't need to wish anymore."
"Mmm?"
"I already got my wish. Now…I have everything I need right here."
"Timpani… Aren't you cold?"
"Not at all. I'm very warm… Can we stay like this? Just a little longer?"
…
…
"Tippi… Tippi… please, wake up…"
"Wha-" It was then that Tippi woke up, and the memories of the previous events started coming back to her. And… Mario! She was still resting on his cap, so she floated upwards. "Where are we…"
"We're in Abracatraz." Jorgen answered. "Fairy World's Maximum Security Prison."
Tippi got a good look around. There were several people she recognized from a few days ago, but many she didn't. She could only recognize Terrance, Tamara, Cosmo, Wanda, Poof, and Jorgen. But to her, the rest were strangers.
"What's the matter, Tippi?" Peach asked, concerned that Tippi wasn't saying anything else. "You seem really out of it…"
"Well, didn't you just hear something?" Tippi asked. She waited for a response, but everyone there made some kind of gesture that indicated to "no." "No? All right, then. It's just that… For a second, I thought I had remembered something very important…"
"Important? Like what?" Violet asked.
"I'm not too sure now…" Tippi responded.
"Aw well, that's a shame!" Cosmo suddenly said, interrupting the moment. "But at least you have us!" Several of them glared at Cosmo in response. "What?"
"Just how many more people are going to get thrown in this cell?" Amethyst asked, changing the topic. "There's already, like twenty of us here already, and it's starting to get pretty crowded in here."
"And why would they put all of us in one cell?" Trixie added. "If I were a part of some robot alien race, I would put us all in separate cells!"
"Don't give them ideas!" AJ yelled at her.
"Yeah, do you want them to separate us?" Chester added.
"No!" Trixie yelled. "I was just saying that if-"
"Oh, if, if, if!" Chester mocked. "Well what if I wasn't stuck in this cell with you and was at home preparing for summer vacation?"
"Hey, you're not the only one who doesn't want to be here!" Junior said, now getting into the argument.
"None of us want to be here!" AJ pointed out.
Steven ran over. "Guys, stop fighting! If we're all fighting, then we can't work together to find out how to get out of here!"
"Sorry, but I don't even know who half the people here even are." Trixie said. "Including you."
"Let's just try to set everything straight, so that everyone knows who everyone is." Tamara suggested. "So, I'm Tamara, and he's Terrance," She gestured to her husband.
"We already knew that." Chester said.
"I didn't!" Steven raised his hand. "Ooh, I'll go next. So, hi, I'm Steven, and I'm a half-gem on my mom's side," Steven lifted up his jacket and shirt to show off the pink gem his mom, Rose Quartz passed down to him. "And my mom pretty much started this alien war, I think? Something along those lines." Steven looked at Junior. "Alright, now you go next."
"Well, I'm-"
"This isn't going to get us anywhere." Pearl interrupted. "We should be thinking of a plan to get out of here!"
"It's kinda hard to when all of our weapons are disabled, you know." Amethyst pointed out.
"I know that!" Pearl responded.
Wanda floated over to Terrance and Tamara. "Aren't you at least a little surprised that Timmy has had Fairy Godparents this whole time?" Wanda asked.
"Well, we would be…" Tamara started. "But we… sort of figured that out ourselves."
"But we do have some questions." Terrance added. "Like, can you grant Timmy's every wish?"
"Well, not every wish. There are rules." Wanda answered.
"Could he have wished me a clean house whenever he saw I was tired from domestic overload?" Tamara asked.
"Sure, that's an easy one!" Wanda answered. Tamara glared in response.
Chester then asked a question. "Could he have wished me up a big house when my trailer got destroyed by that twister?"
"Heck, he could've just wished away the twister!" Cosmo pointed out.
"Well, could he wish all my siblings weren't sick?" Junior asked.
"If it's not in Da Rules, then any child with a fairy godparent can wish for it!" Jorgen yelled. "There, now can we move on?"
"Hang on a sec." Amethyst said. "Hey Steven, maybe you should just get Timmy to "wish" that Peridot would be on our side, right?" Amethyst then snickered at her own joke.
"Amethyst, it's not funny!" Steven said. "I did so much with Peridot, I sang a song with her, I showed her what rain was, I even stuck up for her!"
"Wow," Violet said. "You must have given her a lot of your trust."
"I did! And it blew up in my face." Steven sighed. "The Crystal Gems have been protecting Earth for thousands of years, and Peridot could've destroyed all of that! A whole earth, why did I think I could change her mind!"
"I've got an idea!" Cosmo said. "Maybe if you can't change how someone is from the outside, then maybe you could shrink down really small and then crawl inside-"
"No no no, I don't want to tell her what to do." Steven responded. "She should just… know, shouldn't she?"
"It's 'cause you believe in everyone, Steven." Garnet explained. "Like your mother, you seem to have a little more patience than the rest of us. But the truth is, not everyone deserves that patience."
"I know exactly one person that doesn't." Peach said, growling a little at that last part.
"Well who is it?" AJ asked.
Peach was about to answer, until she heard a cough from behind her. She turned around, and saw that… Mario was finally waking up. "Mario!" Peach quickly ran over to him.
"Is he alright?" Tippi asked.
Mario's eyes slowly opened. "What… urgh…" He blinked. Then, his eyes shot open and he tried to stand up, only to fall back down. "Ow… Everything hurts…"
"Okay, I'll admit I didn't notice it before, but what happened to your arm?" Tamara asked, just now looking at Mario's right arm, which was wrapped in a yellow gauze, but stained with blood.
"Yeah, that looks really, really bad." Amethyst added, cringing a little. "How long have you had that?"
"Around 24 hours." Mario answered. "Also, this happened because… um… I was stabbed… one of Count Bleck's minions. He was… Mr. L."
"If we could get out of this cell," Garnet began. "Then we could get to Rose's Fountain and heal your arm."
"Maybe we don't have to go back to the fountain!" Steven said. "Maybe I can try healing him with my healing spit!"
"Remember, Steven, that none of your Gem powers work here!" Jorgen reminded.
"Well, I'm half human, and my spit is organic, so maybe this will work!" Steven explained. He walked toward Mario. "Uh, Mario, would it be alright if I-"
"Please, I'm willing to do anything to get my arm back to normal at this rate." Mario accepted. Steven nodded, and then licked the palm of his hand. A moment later, he carefully put it down on Mario's injured arm. Several seconds passed. And…
Nothing happened.
"No, why does it still not work!" Steven yelled, upset.
"Well, it was a good try…" Tippi said, trying to cheer Steven up.
"No, you don't understand!" Steven stood up. "My healing spit hasn't worked for like almost a year! My healing spit only worked for a couple weeks before it stopped working again!"
"Hey, don't worry about it too much." Mario said. "I'll just… find another way to heal it."
"Ooh, I know! How about a magic muffin?" Cosmo blurted.
"A magic what?" Chester asked.
"I'll explain." Jorgen said. He cleared his throat. "So, once a child has managed to keep his Fairy or Fairies a secret from everyone for a year, he or she is awarded with a magic muffin, and when you eat it, it allows you to have one rule-free wish."
"That… sounds incredibly dangerous." Violet pointed out.
"Oh, it is dangerous!" Cosmo said. "Cause when Timmy got his magic muffin, he let a monkey get to it and turned the entire world into a world ruled by apes and then Crocker got the muffin and wished himself ruler of the world and wow I say this makes Timmy look really irresponsible!" Cosmo explained quickly without any breaks.
"Well, now I say that we get Timmy!" Terrance stood up. A second later, Tamara, Chester, AJ, and Trixie stood up. The five of them charged at the cell bars, only to fall down when they hit the cell bars.
"All of you, calm down!" Wanda yelled. "Now, I know all of you are now probably thinking that Timmy is selfish…"
"Which he is," Cosmo finished. Wanda glared and then pushed him away
"But what you don't know is that he's risked his life to save all of you!" Wanda continued. "And now he's trying to save you from the Darkness!"
"What about the Void, that's pretty important too…" Tippi reminded.
"Well, I should still have the Pure Heart we collected," Mario began, fishing through his pockets. "Once we get out of here and back to Flipside, we can-" He suddenly stopped. "Where is it? I know I just had it right before we were brought here!"
"You know what's strange?" Terrance asked. "Right before my wife and I were taken here, we had Timmy's permanent records and a camera I set up, but now both of them are gone!"
Just then, what seemed to be an earthquake shook Abracatraz for several seconds, shaking up everyone.
"Was that an earthquake?" Amethyst asked. "Wait, can Fairy World even have earthquakes?"
"It only means that the Void continues to grow larger." Merlon explained. "I imagine that some worlds have already started to decay…"
"Wait a second." Pearl interrupted. "Some worlds… you just mean planets, right?"
"No no no, I mean the other dimensions that Mario and his friends have been traveling to in order to obtain the Pure Hearts." Merlon said.
"Then that means that stopping the Void should be our first priority." Garnet said, frowning a little.
"But what about the Cluster?" Steven asked. "The drill was destroyed, and we might not have enough time to build a new one?"
"Well what about the Darkness?" Wanda questioned. "That thing's gonna destroy the entire universe!"
"Merlon…" Tippi began. "Does the Light Prognosticus not say anything about how much time we have?"
"The Light Prognosticus was only written to counteract the dark one…" Merlon explained. "As such, it's not truly prophetic, so it's hard to say how long we really have… And yet…I feel confident in saying that we do not have much time at all."
"How could you be confident in saying something like that?" AJ questioned.
"Well, maybe it's better that we have the blunt truth!" Chester argued. "Do you want him to lie?"
As Chester and AJ got into their own argument, almost everyone else started getting into their own little conversations, obviously getting sidetracked. At this, Steven sighed and slumped down on the wall. Several seconds later, Junior walked up and sat down next to him.
"Are you… alright, Steven?" Junior asked.
"No, I'm not." Steven said with a sigh. "All this Void and Darkness stuff suddenly gets dumped on me and the Gems, and now it feels like we're never gonna out of here, and what if the Eliminators got to Connie or my dad, or what if they targeted Beach City?"
"Well… they targeted Flipside, and captured everyone there…" Junior responded. "Well, when they captured us, they left my dad behind, and now I'm not sure how long it'll be until I get to see him again."
"If anyone tried to steal my dad, I'm not sure what I'd do." Steven said. "Also, that's exactly what happened at the barn! All of the Crystal Gems and me were captured except Peridot, and the last thing she did before I was gone was to try and get that stupid Diamond Communicator from the Eliminators?"
"Uh, what's a Diamond Communicator?" Junior asked.
"It's a small, diamond shaped device that Peridot said can contact Yellow Diamond." Steven explained. "At least she didn't manage to contact Yellow Diamond, but… I'm not sure what could've happened if she did."
"I don't think anything bad would've happened." Mario said, trying to scoot over to them. "Besides, how powerful could this 'Yellow Diamond' really be?"
"Well, what about all those forced fusion experiments?" Steven asked. "All those gems, broken and forced with others… it's horrifying."
"…Wait." Junior said. He reached into his hammerspace, and pulled something out. "You mean… like this one?" It was the remains "monster" Junior and Timmy fought in the sewers several days ago… Junior didn't like recalling that memory.
Garnet quickly walked over to them at seeing the poofed forced fusion. "Junior, tell me where you got this."
"Well, I found it in the sewers, and Timmy and I defeated it." Junior explained.
"What?" Pearl questioned, now listening in. "How did one of… those manage to get into the sewers of all places?"
"Um…" Junior was unsure how to explain the next part. "Well, later, Timmy and I were captured by MERF, and they had a bunch of those… things locked in cages."
Garnet growled. "That's it. When we get out of here, we are going to go over there ourselves and free those fusions."
"Garnet, I care about rescuing those fusions as much as you do, but we need to focus on everything else first!" Pearl reminded.
"Well…" Steven began. "If we're… focusing on everything else, weren't you and Garnet gonna tell me about what actually happened?"
"What?" Pearl raised an eyebrow.
"The thing you said earlier, about how we'll 'save that story for later'!" Steven yelled. "What was that story? The one about the Darkness or something?"
"Yeah, earlier you were being vague about that." Jorgen pointed out. "And I really think we need to hear it, since what I heard could be highly inaccurate!"
"Please Pearl, please Garnet, this could be important!" Steven said, making himself look sad.
Pearl glanced around, almost as if she was afraid to tell. And then, she sighed. "Alright."
By now, everyone's attention was on Pearl and Garnet.
Pearl cleared her throat.
"Steven… and everyone else… this is the story of what happened when thousands of years ago, the Crystal Gems visited Fairy World."